Education
BA, Rutgers University
Bio
Tara Lemmey is CEO of LENS Ventures, an innovation investment and development company working with leading institutions, including American Express, Nokia, and the Lumina Foundation, in creating next markets. She is the technology co-chair of the Markle Task Force on National Security in the Information Age since 2001. The innovation work in the Markle reports has influenced fundamental restructuring of how the government views intelligence and homeland security in the post 9/11 world. She is the Ambassador from Silicon Valley on the Embassy of the Future Commission, where she serves with 26 former Ambassadors to bring innovation to the State Department. Lemmey is a Commissioner on the Embassy of the Future Task Force and on the Faculty of the Center for Integrative Medicine at the University of Arizona, and a member of several private boards. She has been published in Wired, Business 2.0, Business Week, and the Harvard Business Review. Lemmey is also the inaugural Department Chair of Policy, Law & Ethics at Singularity University in 2009, has been a visiting lecturer at Stanford, Harvard, MIT, Columbia, and UC Berkeley, and is a commentator on public radio.
Executive Sessions
Strategy & Innovation
